How can I fill a div with an image while keeping it proportional?

Question

I found this thread — How do you stretch an image to fill a

while keeping the image's aspect-ratio? — that is not entirely the thing that I want.

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Answer 1

Here you have my working example. I have used a trick that is setting the image as background of the div container with background-size:cover and background-position:center center

I have placed the image with width:100% and opacity:0 making it invisible. Note that I am showing my image only because I have an special interest on calling the child click event.

Please note that altought I am ussing angular it is completely irrelevant.